Austral 20

Austral 20
Current specifications
Type Catamaran[1]
Construction Fiberglass[1]
LOA 6 m (20 ft)[1]
Development
Year 1960s[1]
Designer Charles Cunningham[1]
Location Australia[1]

Austral 20 was a 6 m (20 ft) catamaran produced by Charles Cunningham in Australia in the early 1960s period of experimentation.[1]

It was apparently produced in reasonable numbers by Charles himself.[1]

By now I was earning a proper wage and I wanted to build my own trimaran. For someone who had never made anything more difficult than a doorstop, this was a major decision. I reckoned that I could rely on Lockie and other yachtie friends to advise me on boatbuilding, and save a lot of time by purchasing a ready-made main hull. But who made stock trimaran hulls? No-one, of course; but Charles Cunningham was turning out fibreglass shells for his 6-metre Austral 20 catamaran. I bought one of these, decked it with plywood, built timber-and-ply crossbeams and floats to Lockie's design and fabricated much of the hardware from stainless-steel plate.
Howard Stephenson[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Howard Stephenson. "Trimarans". Retrieved 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, December 12, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.